To the Ramparts of Infinity : Colonel W. C. Falkner and the Ripley Railroad /

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"Before William Faulkner, there was Colonel William C. Falkner (1825-1889), the great-grandfather of the prominent and well-known Mississippi writer. The first biography of Falkner was a dissertation by the late Donald Duclos, which was completed in 1961, and while Faulkner scholars have briefl...

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Main Author: Elliott, Jack D., Jr., 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Falkner, William C. > (William Clark), > 1825-1889.
United States. > Army.
Confederate States of America. > Army.
United States. > Army > Officers > Biography.
Confederate States of America. > Army > Officers > Biography.
Authors, American.
Armed Forces > Officers.
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
Mississippi.
Mississippi > History > 19th century > Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Settling the land: Cumberland Gap and beyond
  • Arrival in Mississippi
  • Things that go bump in the night: the McCannon Affair
  • Mexico: going to see the elephant
  • The Hindman feud
  • Building railroads
  • And history shall never forget you: the war, part 1
  • Belt of desolation: the war, part 2
  • Reconstruction and rebuilding
  • The railroad to Ripley
  • The railroad plods along
  • Novelist and world traveler
  • And beyond that: the railroad revived
  • The shooting
  • Aftermath: the later years of the railroad.

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